Bryan Schutmaat: Sons of the Living

MARSHALL GALLERY PRESENTS A new exhibition celebrating the release of Bryan Schutmaat's long-awaited new project, Sons of the Living. Made over the last decade and following the artist's Guggenheim Fellowship, Schutmaat’s poetic, black-and-white photographs explore the myth of the American West and those who live along its fringes.

We are pleased to welcome back the powerful documentary work of Austin-based photographer Bryan Schutmaat for a second exhibition with the gallery celebrating his long-awaited monograph, Sons of the Living. Bryan's photographs reveal a complex story of the contemporary American Southwest and the lives of those who call its desert highways home through a series of humbling portraits and fractured landscapes. 

From the publisher: Sons of the Living is a photobook about the land and people along the highways of America’s deserts. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “open road” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to trouble on the road ahead and searches for our hope to withstand it.

Bryan Schutmaat is a photographer based in Austin, Texas whose work has been widely exhibited and published. He has won numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Bryan’s prints are held in many collections, such as Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pier 24 Photography, Rijksmuseum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He co-founded the imprint, Trespasser.